Prepare for Transition Reflection

When looking forward to graduation and obtaining my nursing license, I am amazed at how quickly it is approaching. It feels like just yesterday that I was starting my college career, unsure of where I would be in four years. I am most excited to acquire my first nursing job, and hopefully build relationships with other new grads and peers on my floor. I would like to celebrate my victories and progress with my friends and family. My family has always been so supportive of my goals, and they have continued to provide endless reassurance through my college and nursing school experience. I would also like to celebrate my nursing school victories with my friends, especially the ones made through nursing school. My nursing school friends, peers, and faculty are the only people who truly understand how much work and dedication I have committed to this program, so I am looking forward to celebrating with them.

            While I am excited to start my first nursing job, I am also very anxious and afraid that I will not be prepared. I am also afraid to take the next gen NCLEX exam to obtain my nursing license. This is the biggest exam I have ever had to take, so I am nervous I won’t be prepared. Due to this anxiety, I am hoping my weekly study plan will help me feel more prepared as the exam and my first nursing job gets closer. I plan to study approximately 4 times a week until clinicals have ended for at least an hour each day. I have chosen this goal because it seems realistic to me, and I don’t want to set a goal too high for myself since I am still taking classes, working, and tutoring others. I plan to increase my studying once clinicals have ended since I will have more time, and then I plan to study full time until my exam after graduation. I feel that this plan embodies a SMART goal and is reasonable for me. I also feel that the classes I am taking this semester will help prepare me for the NCLEX. 

While taking the four Nurse Logic 2.0 Modules, I learned a lot about how to approach NCLEX questions. The clinical judgement module helped me learn how to break down a question to find the best answer. The nursing concepts module helped me to understand all the different concepts a job in nursing will include, such as priority setting, evidence-based practice, and interprofessional collaboration. The priority setting frameworks module helped me understand how to find the priority patient in the question by using method such as the ABCs and the least invasive method. Finally, the testing and remediation module helped me learn how important remediation is to the learning process, and how it can help transfer information to long-term memory.